Oost Dunkerque Military Cemetery

[johntanner]

Can anyone help me pin-point the location of this cemetery? The burials in it were relocated to Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery, with most, if not all in Rows A and B of Plot III there.  The White Cross Atlas only gets me into the general area, with the most likely location being on the road from Nieuport Bains down the coast.

[RussT]

The CWGC Description of Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery seems to indicate that Oost-Dunkerque Cemetery was the No 3 Nieuport Bains Military Cemetery - or that is one way of reading the description ...

Looking through a few Grave Concentration documents then provides this example, which places it at 11.R.24.a.1.2:

That map reference in turn plots as (Yellow pin):

[jay dubaya]

Russ beat me to it...

[johntanner]

It’s possible but the exhumation reports for Nieuwport Bains No 3 and Oost Dunkerque are very different and not made at the same time. Indeed, Rows A and B of Plot III are the only ones so reported.  

[WhiteStarLine]

Dunkerque,  Sheet 11, 1:40,000
Edition: 1916
Annotated with cemeteries. Marked AAM on reverse. From Messer collection
Id: m_5_000744

[jay dubaya]

NIEUPORT-BAINS MILITARY CEMETERIES No.1, No.2 and No.3, OOST-DUNKERKE, French cemeteries close together at the West end of Nieuport-Bains. No.1 contained one British grave of 1917, No.2 two of 1918, and No.3 91 (including two Australian) of 1916-17. (CWGC)

Oost Dunkerque Bains Military Cemetery graves as they appear in Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery, a total of 91 graves.

Plot I,

Row BA, Graves 13 to 37.

Plot II,

Row B, Graves 1 to 12 and 19 to 36.

Row C, Graves 1 to 8.

Plot III,

Row A, Graves 1 to 9.

Plot VIII,  

Row A, Graves 1 to 8.

Row B, Graves 7 to 10.

Row C, Graves 1 to 4.

Row D, Graves 3 to 10.

 

Nieuport Bains Military Cemetery as they appear at Ramscappele Road Military Cemetery, a total of 85 graves.

Plot II,

Row D, Graves 1 to 12.

Plot III,

Row D, Graves 1 to 21.

Plot IV,

Row A, Graves 5 to 15.

Plot V,

Row B, Graves 13 to 16.

Row C, Graves 1 to 20.

Plot VII,

Row D, Graves 1 to 10.       

 

The answer lies in the service records of 2 Australians, 299 Wilkinson had already been concentrated to Nieuport Bains Cemetery No.3 before being removed to Ramscappelle. 2464 Hocking was disinterred from Oost Dunjirk (sic) Bains British Cemetery at 11.R.26.

 

Edited 4 April by jay dubaya

[johntanner]

Fantastic,  thanks. 

[WhiteStarLine]

I realise all participants on this thread have the White Cross Atlas.  For the benefit of anyone else, the digital edition compiled by the late Richard Laughton has been georeferenced on TrenchMapper.  Well, georeferenced is too strong a word as it is only intended as a motoring guide.  There is a bit of difference between the red dot and 11.R.26 but it gives a good guide to the original cemeteries in the area and indeed across the whole of France / Flanders.

Maps 2 - 3: Dover, Calais, Dunkerque, Ypres Sheet 12, 19, 20, 27, 28

Scale: 1:126,720  Edition: 2020 Digital, Richard Laughton

White Cross Insurance atlas of 64 coloured maps and 1,700 cemetery locations circa 1920